Stoic Fundamentals

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Confine yourself to the present.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

He who is brave is free.

It is not that I am brave, but that I know what is not worth fearing.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.